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Power of Registrar to
refuse to register unlawful or ineffective
documents.
Registrar not responsible for
statements in documents.
Disposal of documents.
Form of registers
etc.
1948 c. 38, s. 436; 1976
c. 47, s. 3(1) and (3).
Companies
[1984 Ed.
348. The Registrar may refuse to register or accept any document delivered to him for registration if it appears to him to be manifestly unlawful or ineffective; and any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Registrar to accept any document under this section may, within 42 days of the refusal, appeal to the court against the refusal and the court may make such order thereon as it may deem just, including an order as to costs:
Provided that where an order as to costs is made against the Registrar, such costs shall be payable out of the general revenue and the Registrar shall not be liable personally therefor.
(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 240)
348A. The Registrar shall not be responsible for verifying the truth of any statement made in any document delivered to him for registration.
(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 240)
348B. The Registrar may, if in his opinion it is no longer necessary or desirable to retain them, destroy or dispose of-
(a) any return of allotment of shares for cash which has been lodged or filed for not less than 2 years;
(b) any annual return or balance sheet that has been lodged or filed for not less than 7 years or any document creating or evidencing a charge or the complete or partial satisfaction of a charge where a memorandum of satisfaction of the charge has been registered for not less than 7 years; or
(c) any other document (other than the memorandum and articles of a company or any other document affecting them) which has been lodged, filed or registered for not less than 15 years.
(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 240)
Form of Registers etc.
348C. (1) Any register, index, minute book or book of account required by this Ordinance to be kept by a company may be kept either by making entries in bound books or by recording the matters in question in any other manner.
(2) The power conferred on a company by subsection (1) includes power to keep the register or other record by recording the matters in question otherwise than in a legible form so long as the recording is capable of being reproduced in a legible form.
(3) If any register, index, minute book or book of account required by this Ordinance to be kept by a company is kept by the company by recording the matters in question otherwise than in a legible form, any duty imposed on the company by virtue of this Ordinance to allow inspection of, or to furnish a copy of,
the
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